EOS Stablecoin? Blockchain Startup Havven Plans Launch By Year End

The shadowy self-taught Bitcoin coder and creator of decentralized social media protocol Nostr who goes by the pseudonym Fiatjaf has collaborated with his employer, Zebedee, a Bitcoin gaming and payments company, on a social media layer that will soon launch on Zebedee’s flagship app, according to the firm.Nostr, created by Fiatjaf and self-proclaimed Bitcoin hobbyist…

Pennsylvania blockchain forensics firm CipherBlade claims that a group of employees executed a “hostile takeover,” in a lawsuit filed in Alaska.The suit alleges misappropriation of trade secrets, unfair competition and racketeering.This is the second attempt at suing the company’s new leadership; a previous filing was withdrawn from a New York court.Blockchain forensics firm CipherBlade appears

Wormhole, a developer platform that allows different blockchain networks to communicate with each other, has raised $225 million at a $2.5 valuation in a funding round reminiscent of the peak of the last crypto bull run.The funding round included a contribution from Wormhole's former overseers, Jump Trading, with Brevan Howard, Coinbase Ventures and Multicoin Capital

This week in prediction markets:Trump is convicted, but bettors on Polymarket have a conviction he'll stay out of prison and return to the White House.No rate cut this year, Kalshi traders sayDonald J. Trump is the first U.S. president, former or otherwise, to be convicted in criminal court. But this dubious distinction did little to

Aug 27, 2020 at 14:39 UTCUpdated Aug 27, 2020 at 14:40 UTC(Jonathan Petersson/Unsplash)David Dias is a research engineer at Protocol Labs. He specializes in peer-to-peer networking and distributed systems. Electricity, water, gas – these are just some of the public utilities we use every day, whether for cooking food in the morning, heating homes throughout…

Bitter finger-pointing and recrimination are swirling among and around investors in Bored Ape Yacht Club, the “profile pic” (PFP) NFT collection that skyrocketed to immense values in early 2022. The market for Apes has been brutally hammered by a lull in NFT interest, with floor prices – the lowest price for which an Ape can…

This article originally appeared in First Mover, CoinDesk’s daily newsletter, putting the latest moves in crypto markets in context. Subscribe to get it in your inbox every day.Latest PricesTop StoriesGalaxy Digital’s venture team has long invested its own money in crypto companies. Now, it’s planning to do that with outside investors’ capital, too. The investments

Prediction market Polymarket raised $45 million from investors including Peter Thiel's Founders Fund and Ethereum creator Vitalik Buterin.The company is seeing brisk business in the run-up to the U.S. presidential election.Polymarket, the cryptocurrency-based prediction market platform that's enjoying a breakout year in the run-up to the U.S. presidential election, raised $45 million in a series

Harry Moseley image via CoinDesk videoZoom might not be a decentralized app but as the go-to video conferencing tool for crypto project communications, it is seen by many as an important enabler of the industry’s various decentralized communities. Harry Moseley, a technologist with an eclectic career who is now Zoom’s chief information officer, sat down…